Delegation is an essential skill that every leader needs but are many good at it? According to research, the answer is no.
Being great at delegation makes a huge difference to your workload and stress levels, allows you to do the higher impact tasks required in your role and is a way to develop the people in your team.
In this episode, I share:
While listening to this episode, I encourage you to assess your own view on delegation, whether you could delegate more and what actions you could take this week to help you do that.
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In a typical office environment, many of us start off in a generalist role as an assistant or coordinator, helping the team with anything and everything.
As you progress you become more specialised and when you reach management or head of level, you’re an expert in your area.
But then the time comes when you move above that level and instead of just managing people from your specialism, you find yourself having to lead, manage and trust people from different specialisms. All who know more about their areas than you do.
This transition from successful specialist to a successful generalist can be difficult to navigate.
The more senior you are, the more important this transition becomes. After all, a great Chief Executive is...
As you develop your career and become more senior, there’s a good chance that you’ll move from being a specialist to a generalist.
Instead of just managing people from your specialism, you can find yourself having to lead, manage and trust people from different specialisms who know more about their areas than you do.
This transition from successful specialist to a successful generalist can be difficult to navigate.
In this week’s podcast, I share:
This is a short and sweet episode with lots of practical actions you can take into your role.
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I believe the most powerful way to live a happier life is to learn how to be kinder to yourself and love yourself more.
As women, we often struggle with accepting ourselves and being confident and secure in who we are.
Being kinder to yourself not only makes your relationship with yourself a better one, it also improves how you show up as a leader.
Many of the issues that come up around perfectionism, negative self-talk and overwork can be reduced almost completely by just being kinder to yourself and fully accepting and embracing who you are.
If you love yourself, you are operating from a secure place. This means you don’t feel like you need to push yourself ridiculously hard to prove that you're good enough or believe that the quality of your work defines your...
One of the most powerful ways to live a happier life is learning how to be kinder to yourself and love yourself more.
As women, we often struggle with accepting ourselves and being confident and secure in who we are. Being kinder to yourself not only makes your relationship with yourself a better one, it also improves how you show up as a leader.
In this episode I discuss:
After listening to this episode, I’d love for you to ask yourself this – What's one way I can love myself more today?
Head over to my socials and share your answer with me!
I mentioned episode 32: Why we look to others for validation. You can listen here
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The playing field that women operate on in the workplace is shockingly unlevel.
Let’s start with some stats to see the real picture of the current environment we work in.
I learnt some very interesting facts on this from Why Women Win At Work by Gill Whitty-Collins – a book I highly recommend.
At the beginning of their career, 43% of women and 34% of men aspire to reach top management. Surprisingly, it's actually more women than men aspire for that.
Just two years later, 34% of men still aspire to reach top management. However, the percentage of women has dropped to 16%.
The question on my mind is what’s happening in those two years of experiencing the workplace that is changing women's minds about what they want to do or what they think is...
As a coach for women leaders, I focus on how as women we can take control of our careers.
But I’ve never addressed on the podcast why we even need women’s leadership coaches and women’s leadership programmes.
The playing field that women operate on in the workplace is shockingly unlevel. It’s time to acknowledge that and collectively take steps to change it.
I discuss:
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However, many people don’t know how to use their voice to its full effect.
If you want communicate powerfully, then it’s time to give it some attention.
In the latest episode of the Influence & Impact for Female Leaders podcast, I interviewed Sharon Stacey, a Voice Coach and Musical Director.
Sharon teaches people how to use vocal clarity, attentive tone and confidence for delivering in person and online meetings, keynote speeches and business pitches.
She shared six ways you can use your voice to boost your gravitas in meetings:
Warming up is not something reserved for singers. Before your meeting, practice saying a few sentences using the full range of your voice and emphasising different words....
As a leader, your voice is a powerful tool for communicating your expertise, confidence and authority. But do you know how to use your voice effectively?
In this episode of the podcast, I interview Sharon Stacey, a Voice Coach and Musical Director.
We discussed:
Sharon had me try three of the voice training exercises that you can participate in along with us.
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For years I thought that I was doing well in my career because I worked so hard and held myself to such high standards. Then I realised that those strategies were actually perfectionism in disguise and were causing as much harm as they were good.
I coach a lot of high achieving women, at all levels and perfectionism in its various guises, crops up all the time. If you struggle with overworking, trying to be in control of everything in your life, procrastinating and fear of failure, you might be a perfectionist.
There are many definitions but essentially, people who experience perfectionism are very focused on how things should be done and feel that they need to perform perfectly every time with nothing short of this being acceptable.
I love this quote from Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s...
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